Instant Pot Bean and Bacon Soup–dried beans are cooked quickly in your electric pressure cooker along with carrots, celery, garlic and bacon. A simple but seriously delicious soup that will leave you wanting seconds (and the leftovers the next day are even better than the first day). Big thanks to Hurst’s Beans for sponsoring this post.

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Instant Pot Bean and Bacon Soup

I love this Instant Pot Bean and Bacon soup! I made it yesterday for dinner and just got out the leftovers for lunch today and it tasted even better the second day. It’s got almost a creamy consistency for the broth and there’s just so much flavor in it thanks to the bacon and the seasoning packet that’s included with the Hurst’s 15 Bean Soup package. My kids loved it too and we all had multiple bowls.

You’ll start this recipe with Hurst’s 15 Bean Soup. You can find this product next to the dried beans at your local grocery store. Hurst’s Beans specializes in seasoned dried beans. I love Hurst’s soups because they require so few ingredients and they feed a crowd for cheap! You can follow their easy recipes on the back of the package of you can get creative and mix it up. Scroll down below to see other recipes I’ve made with their products.

I prefer soaking my dried beans before I cook them. I just find that the consistency turns out much better this way. Most of the time I don’t remember to soak the beans the night before so I’ll teach you a method of how to quick soak the beans in your Instant Pot.

How to quick soak dried beans in the Instant Pot

If a recipe calls for beans that have been soaked overnight and you forgot that step you can do it fairly quickly in the Instant Pot. Here’s how…

First just pour the beans into a colander and rinse them off. Sometimes dried beans have a little dirt and debris in them. Once they have been rinsed you can add the beans to the Instant Pot.
Next you’ll cover the beans with water. For every one cup of beans you’ll want about 3-4 cups of water. I used 10 cups of water for the entire package of dried beans.
Now you’ll add in salt. The salty solution is essential to getting the beans the right consistency. I added in one tablespoon of salt. Don’t worry, we’ll rinse the beans of the salt before we cook them in the soup.
Now you’ll bring the pot to a boil by using the the “sauté” function on your Instant Pot.
Once the water comes to a boil you will cover the pot with the lid and set the valve to “sealing.” Then you’ll set the manual pressure cooker button to 2 minutes.
When the timer beeps you can open the valve very slowly. If foam begins to exit the valve stop releasing the pressure and wait for 30 seconds before you try again.
Once the lid is removed go ahead and drain and rinse the beans in a colander under cool running water. Now you can proceed with the recipe that requires pre-soaked beans.

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More recipes that use dried beans

Try out these other fantastic recipes that use Hurst’s Beans…

Instant Pot Sausage Bacon Chili Soup

Cajun Beans and Rice (on stovetop or the slow cooker)

Slow Cooker Ham and Bean Soup

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken 15 Bean Soup

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What Pressure Cooker Did You Use?

For this Instant Pot Bean and Bacon Soup I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1 for this recipe. I also own the 6 quart Instant Pot IP-LUX60 V3 Programmable Electric Pressure Cooker. They are both great pressure cookers! The first one I mentioned has a yogurt making function but other than that they are fairly similar. The price difference between the two is about $20.